Your support of the Southwest Civic Winds is so very special! It is a way to foster the culture of a community. Your donation helps us enrich lives by providing high quality, live concert events and music education for the public. We are so proud to be in our 13th Season as the Four Corners Community Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Your generosity helps our organization further develop and realize its mission and allows us to provide programming of the highest quality as well as outstanding supplemental education programs in local area schools.
Our all-volunteer organization is committed to providing access to the arts through high quality wind band literature, opportunities for youth, and adults alike, to grow in their musicianship, and outstanding education outreach to all local area students.
We hope you will join us on our journey as we strive to develop the culture of the Four Corners community and significantly contribute to the well being and education of future musicians.
The mission of the Southwest Civic Winds is to provide a cultural resource that offers a musical program of the highest standard so that area musicians may rehearse and perform quality wind band literature for audiences to enjoy at very affordable prices.
The Southwest Civic Winds is a community band made up of about 50 players from throughout the Four Corners. We perform a wide range of symphonic concert series each season, along with free outdoor community concerts each summer. Concerts are held throughout the Four Corners, including Durango, Bayfield, Cortez, and northern New Mexico.
The Southwest Civic Winds continues from a long tradition of community bands. Early immigrants from Europe brought with them their custom of village band music. From this, military and community bands were formed all across the United States. Today, there are an estimated 2,500 such bands throughout the country, including the Four Corners area.
The Southwest Civic Winds is a member of the Association of Concert Bands, aligning our values closely with their mission to foster excellence in Concert Band music through performance, education, and advocacy. The Southwest Civic Winds currently offers two distinct ensembles in which to participate, a Symphonic Wind Band and a Jazz Orchestra.
The Southwest Civic Winds is proud to be preserving the rich heritage that community bands have long provided by entertaining the general public through live performances and by serving as a source of cultural pride for citizens of the Four Corners. We enrich the lives of adult musicians in the towns we serve by providing them with an opportunity to use and develop their musical talent as part of a cohesive ensemble, and with the satisfaction of performing the finest in symphonic band repertoire. While many members of the Southwest Civic Winds are professional musicians and music educators from across the Four Corners region, this band is an all-volunteer, membership organization. Many concerts also feature side-by-side student musicians, providing them an opportunity to learn and grow alongside seasoned professionals.
Organization name
Southwest Civic Winds
2012
Tax id (EIN)
46-4908510
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Youth Development
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
735 MAIN AVE STE ADurango, CO, US
Farmington, NM, US
Cortez, CO, US, 81321
Bayfield, CO, US, 81122
Ignacio, CO, US, 81137